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  • Tunisia closes border with Libya; announces emergency state following terrorist attack

    Date: 2015-11-25 20:03:36 GMT - Tunisia - Security and Crime - SN:99 - ID:3806474

    TUNIS, Nov 25 (MENA) - Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi announced the state of emergency for 30 days after a terrorist attack on a presidential guard bus in Tunis. The decision was taken at a meeting of the national security ....

  • Matrouh security chief: 419 Egyptians returned home from Libya over past 24 hours

    Date: 2015-11-25 10:02:44 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:29 - ID:3801686

    MARSA MATROUH, Egypt, Nov 25 (MENA) - Matrouh Security Chief General Hesham Lotfi said 419 Egyptians returned home from Libya over the past 24 hours. In statements on Wednesday, the security chief said Matrouh security finished travel measures of ....

  • Zend, Emad visit two judges injured in Arish attack

    Date: 2015-11-24 11:42:14 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:39 - ID:3794958

    CAIRO, Nov 24 (MENA) - Ministers Ahmed el Zend of Justice and Ahmed Emad of Health headed to the International Medical Center on the Cairo-Ismailia desert road to visit the two judges who were injured in the terror attack in el Arish city, in North ....

  • Interior Ministry: Judge, two policemen, one civilian killed, 12 injured in Arish attack

    Date: 2015-11-24 11:40:37 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:37 - ID:3794598

    CAIRO, Nov 24 (MENA) - The Interior Ministry on Tuesday announced that a judge, two policemen and a citizen were killed and 12 others injured in el Arish hotel attack in North Sinai. In a statement released on Tuesday, the Interior Ministry said ....

  • Health Ministry: Arish car bombing killed four, injured 17

    Date: 2015-11-24 10:27:03 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:24 - ID:3794198

    CAIRO, Nov 24 (MENA) - Ministry of Health and Population Spokesman Khaled Megahed said Arish car bombing left four persons, including a judge, killed and 17 others injured. In statements to MENA, Megahed said two of the injured were rushed to ....

  • Casualties in Arish blast rises to 3 policemen dead, 14 others injured

    Date: 2015-11-24 08:20:25 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:12 - ID:3793221

    El ARISH, Egypt, Nov 24 (MENA) - The number of causalities in el Arish car bomb blast on Tuesday rose to three killed policemen, and 14 others, including two civilians, were injured. The blast, outside the Swiss Inn Hotel, smashed the hotel's ....

  • Car bomb attack in Arish foiled

    Date: 2015-11-24 07:23:18 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:7 - ID:3792949

    El ARISH, Egypt, Nov 24 (MENA) - Security bodies in el Arish, North Sinai, on Tuesday foiled an attempt by terrorists to detonate a booby-trapped car outside the Swiss Inn Hotel. Security forces targeted the car while passing through a checkpoint ....

  • Brussels extends terror alert for week

    Date: 2015-11-23 22:19:10 GMT - Belgium - Security and Crime - SN:145 - ID:3792165

    BRUSSELS, Nov 23 (MENA) - Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel announced Monday that Brussels will stay at the highest security threat level for another week over fears of terror act, Sky News reported. In a press conference, Belgian Prime ....

  • Tunisia says ex-president Marzouki rejected investigation into 'assassination threat'

    Date: 2015-11-23 22:01:39 GMT - Tunisia - Security and Crime - SN:141 - ID:3791973

    TUNIS, Nov 23 (MENA) - Tunisian Interior Ministry spokesman Walid Louguini said Monday that former president Moncef Marzouki rejected receiving investigators sent from the public prosecution to interrogate him over alleged assassination ....

  • Biden joins meeting of representatives from Global Coalition to Counter Daesh

    Date: 2015-11-23 21:48:54 GMT - USA - Security and Crime - SN:140 - ID:3792065

    WASHINGTON, Nov 23 (MENA) - United States Vice President Joe Biden on Monday joined senior diplomatic representatives from the 65 members of the Global Coalition to Counter Daesh who gathered for a plenary session at the State Department to review ....

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